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Speaking for more than one regular on more than one team, Dallas Linebacker Jeff Rohrer had sworn, "If some scab is in my locker, I'm going to toss his stuff right out in the middle of the floor." But no clothes or fits have been thrown. And the air is almost as clear as the linoleum. In the aftermath of the football strike, pickets, defectors and replacements are cohabiting fairly well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Formation: Odd Man Out | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...health spa for treatment of rheumatism: "I am very happy indeed. I believed I was forgotten." He will receive half of the $290,000 physics award. The other half will be shared by two scientists at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory -- Gerd Binnig, 39, a West German, and Heinrich Rohrer, 53, a Swiss -- who between 1979 and 1981 designed a new and entirely different kind of electron microscope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHYSICS: Lives of Spirit and Dedication | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...scanning tunneling microscope, invented by Binnig and Rohrer, records the position of a needle that rises and dips to keep constant height while moving across the tiny irregularities on the surface of a specimen. The ups correspond to the bumps of individual atoms, and the downs to spaces between them, producing an atomic-scale contour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHYSICS: Lives of Spirit and Dedication | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...Make, movement, rarity," says Los Angeles Lawyer Jack Quinn. "That's what the serious collector looks for." Muses Hans Rohrer, a computer manager in Munich: "These pieces are reverse time machines. They exude a flavor--even a musty smell--of yesterday, a bit of immortality." Rohrer keeps all his yesterdays in a drawer at home. Quinn keeps the family immortality collection snug in a bank vault, although his journalist wife Joan has been known to wear several pieces of it, simultaneously, on her wrist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Seems Like Old Time | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

...Elis might miss the class of '82 even more on defense and special teams. Yale led the league in rushing defense last season holding its seven Ivy opponents to 657 yards on the ground. The loss of linebackers Jay Snyder and Jeff Rohrer (a second round draft pick of the Dallas Cowboys) particularly disturbs Cozza...

Author: By Gwen Knapp, | Title: Yale's Losses Might Not Include Ivy Title | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

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